Low Family History
- Low Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near a tumulus, mound or hill, Middle English lowe, from Old English hlaw (see Law 2). Scottish and English: nickname for a short man, from Middle English lah, lowe (Old Norse lágr; the word was adopted first into the northern dialects of Middle English, where Scandinavian influence was strong, and then spread south, with regular alteration of the vowel quality). English and Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname for a violent or dangerous person, from Anglo-Norman French lou, leu ‘wolf’ (Latin lupus). Wolves were relatively common in Britain at the time when most surnames were formed, as there still existed large tracts of uncleared forest. Scottish: from a pet form of Lawrence. Compare Lowry 1. Americanized spelling of Jewish Lowe.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,147,975 Historical Documents with Low on Ancestry
- 435,890 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 254,002 Census and Voter Lists
- 53,473 Military Records
- 65,975 Immigration Records
- 338,635 Member Trees
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Number of Low families
 309 - 616  104 - 308 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Low families
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31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Low census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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